Thank you for doing the dirty work

Windows XP error “duhhn” sound.

\ instead of / is really annoying.
I recently had to do a template variable replace is batch, resulting in a JSON config file for another program.
A bunch of paths and stuff. And the variables I was substituting in were also used in batch cmds.
It was a pain figuring out when and where to escape or not-escape backslashes.

Censoring*

Censure is like a harsh criticism

What a stable government

Nonononono, that was his LAST term.
He’s already clarified that was moot when he fucked with the (art of the) trade deals he negotiated then.
If you are thinking in terms of terms (4 years) or years (1 year) you are daydreaming. Get your head out of your head! Get into the here & now. Grab the here by the now! Week on week? Weak eats weak. Day at a time, hour by hour, minute by minute, second by second, trade by trade

Threaten, bully, strong-arm. That’s how you business. That’s how you run a casino. That’s how you win. The house always wins, so it’s time to double down!
We aren’t looking at yesteryear or even yesterday. It’s not even about the forecasts of tomorrow.
It’s about the here and now.
Markets are closed? Don’t care.
Markets are shut down due to a selling circuit breaker? Don’t care.
Markets are open? Why aren’t we buying?

It’s all about line goes up. And if it doesn’t go up, it’s about buying.
You see, winners buy the dip. Everyone should be buying right now. And the US tariffs that. Tariff the buy, so other people pay to make the line go up.
If the US is selling, the US is being swindled. So buy the dip.

(Idk what the fuck this is. Some drunken ramblings. I hope everyone is doing well, even if we are all being fucked over financially)

I’ve heard Drupal uses SQL

What?
You have a product that costs 450 to produce.
And you add a 50 markup so you are selling at 500.
Tariffs push that 500 up to 750. Which means a 50% tariff.

So you remove your 50 markup and sell it at cost in that market. Which means a product at 450 with a 50% tariff will cost 675.
You don’t make any money on that sale. Fine, it’s a loss-leader. Hopefully you make up the profit of game sales and subscriptions. Which will also be tariffed.

For a finished product, the tariff is applied to the selling cost. It doesn’t care about the value of the parts or the amount of markup.
A government isn’t going to pick through a device and apply Country of Origin tariffs on every part, or separate company profit from cost-of-product.

If a company says a product is worth 500, that’s the amount the tariff is applied to.
I doubt Nintendo is going to eat the cost of tariffs.
It’s insane to. They could say “we will still launch at this price”, and have the us government cook up more tariffs or whatever. Then Nintendo is holding the bag, or has to renege on the price.
It would be smarter to mildly offset the cost. Like you say, knock $20-50 off but stipulate the final cost is subject to import duties.
I’d love them to say “well, you do you. This is the cost of the console. Your import duties are not out problem.” But I feel (despite their bullshit legal department) Nintendo is more passionate than that, and I think they will mildly reduce the price

Not a lawyer.
But how to “cover your ass”.

If pressured to still send a quote with it included, ask your manager to email over the details - ie get it in writing.
You are looking for them to tell you to include this unprovidable service in the quote as part of the details/instructions.
IE your manager to tell you to do the unethical thing in writing.
And respond back along the lines of “as discussed, we can’t provide this service and can’t procure it from the upstream provider. However I will do as instructed and email the quote to the customer with this service included”.
This is indicating that you have discussed it (ideally save any other emails about this subject).
If your boss emails back “we haven’t discussed this”, then raise the issue in writing and don’t send the quote until it is resolved by email (if your boss talks to you in person, feel free to send a “follow up” email outlining what you discussed and ask for clarification).
If your boss emails back “do as you are told”, then do as you are told.
Save all the emails.

BCC to a personal account will be seen in server logs. Better to export backups or take screenshots and put them on a USB. Or ZIP them with a password and find a way to exfil them without raising red flags if USB devices are restricted. There are many ways to do this, I’m sure I can suggest some.

Generally, working under instruction where your pushback might lead to termination generally results in unfair dismissal and settlements.
Especially if you can prove that you have raised the issue, and still been told to proceed.

It doesn’t sound like this is a risk-to-life or risk-to-public scenario, so I don’t think “whistle blower” procedures are needed.

1. Sweat.
2. Blood.
3. Saliva.
4. Urine.
5. Semen.
6. Vaginal discharge (is there a better name for this?).
7. … Tears? Or is it diarrhea?

Oh, that makes sense

Well, Tesla is a US company, as VW/Bayer was/is a German company.
The UK government took stewardship over VW after ww2 https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/how-major-ivan-hirst-and-the-british-government-saved-vw-after-wwii/
It also took bayer 30 YEARS to re-establish as a brand.

I would question VW/Bayer’s “driving force” behind the Nazis. There is some amount of “well, I guess we are doing holocaust now” kinda thing.
Regardless 80 years on, an entire world war, and massive trials… I feel like they have paid some dues.
No doubt still a shitty corporation, but unlikely in support of actively firing the people maintaining the nuclear arsenal, thinking internment camps are efficient (and they still have a “DEI” page https://www.volkswagen-group.com/en/diversity-and-inclusion-16087 (although their single mention of LGBT+ has an asterisk next to it which doesn’t seem to reference anything))

fElon owns a social media company. He is frauding governments, engineering the collapse of social support programs and science, gaslighting/propaganda-ing the population/government (felon controlling the government: https://truthout.org/articles/aoc-pharma-reforms-had-almost-unanimous-house-support-until-elon-musk-tweeted/ or https://www.forbes.com/sites/gebai/2024/12/31/blame-the-game-or-the-players-regulating-pharmacy-benefit-managers/ ) while his party engineers book-burningbanning, science denialism, creating lists of trans people (non-conformants), detaining people based on political opinion, and is starting a very aggressive trade-war.
Never mind the drugs fElon is on.

So yeh. There are lessons to be learned from ww2.
There are still companies around from then, and they have changed.
There are probably more scientists working for the US then there are Nazis working in the EU… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
But all that shit is documented. And now we can call that shit out a few weeks into the issue instead (hopefully instead) of having a big world war about it.

I would say cudos to VW and Bayer for being able to still be companies (respectable companies?) after being such a part of the nazi war machine.
Same with Hugo Boss. And Fanta. And BMW. And Kodak. And Siemens. And IBM. Even the Associated Press self-censored their news. Oh, and Ford.
https://historycollection.com/10-famous-companies-collaborated-nazi-germany/

I hope we have learned. I hope Tesla is a lesson to other companies. I hope America is a lesson to other countries.
Punish that shit behaviour. Burn that shit. Don’t let it start again

Go fascist, meet actual long term damaging effects.

Not got the same ring to it, but it’s not an empty promise.

On jerboa, I see 😈 MedicPig 🐷 BabySaver 😈 as your name on all comments

As an augmentation, the ability to spot and track objects visually would be amazing.
But then planes just have to fly above 10k ft, and pretty much guaranteed cloud cover.

Echolocation is specifically audio based.
Lidar is a similar technique, but much more accurate and precise.
Project a grid of laser beam, read when the laser bounces back, you know the distance to that part of the grid.

So democrats have recently stood united?

This one is well matured, barrel aged with hints and aromas beyond my palette.
A rare meme in these times, to be sure.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/comical-ali-baghdad-bob

Lemmy.ml is the instance run by the developers. Pretty sure there are some discussions there.
Other than that, GitHub issues. I’m surprised they haven’t enabled GitHub discussions.

Id recommend Proxmox on a cheap n100 nuc.
Makes it easy to spin up VMs, take snapshots of them, tinker and break them, then roll back to the snapshot